I lived for two years among native Hispanic people with strong indigenous heritages from Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and other countries. My years of service involved teaching, learning Spanish, volunteer opportunities, assisting with ESL classes and more.  Through this connection, the relationships I nurtured and the stories they shared with me I developed a great appreciation struggles and trials that they have passed through in order to make it to where they are today. Their strength and resilience is a constant inspiration to me and I continue to reach out to support local Spanish-speaking communities in my new home as I continually increase my knowledge of their heritage, people and cultures.  

Polynesia Section
Robert Langdon (1993) The banana as a key to early American and Polynesian history, The Journal of Pacific History, 28:1, 15-35, DOI: 10.1080/00223349308572723
Rull, Valentí. 2019. "Human Discovery and Settlement of the Remote Easter Island (SE Pacific)" Quaternary 2, no. 2: 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat2020015
Jones, Terry L., Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World, Alta Mira Press, 2011.
Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth, and Ramirez, Jose-Miguel, Human Skeletal Evidence of Polynesian Presence in South America? Metric Analyses of Six Crania from Mocha Island, Chile, 

Viking Section
Ward, Elisabeth. 2000. "Vikings in America." Muse: 4(5):30-36
Fitzhugh, William. 2000. "Vikings Arrive in America." Scandinavian Review (Winter) :50-56
Fitzhugh, William W. and Elisabeth I. Ward, eds. 2000. Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Begley, Sharon. 2000. "The Ancient Mariners." Newsweek (April 3):48-49, 52-54.
 
Bering Strait Section
Karafet, Tatiana, Y chromosome markers and trans-Bering Strait dispersals, A. J. Phys. Anthropol. 102:301–314, 1997.
Meiri, Meirav, Faunal record identifies Bering isthmus conditions as constraint to end-Pleistocene migration to the New World, The Royal Society Publishing, July 2014. 
Einarsson, T., Hopkins, D. M. & Doell, R. D. in The Bering Land Bridge (ed. Hopkins, D. M.) 312–325 (Stanford Univ. Press, (1967)).

Japanese Section
Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the North Pacific, page 52
Collcutt, Martin. Journal of Japanese Studies 25, no. 1 (1999): 193-97. Accessed July 20, 2021. doi:10.2307/133372.

European Section
Martin, Paul S., The Discovery of America, Science, March 9, 1972.
Edwards, Charles Lester; Vespucci, Amerigo (2009). Amerigo Vespucci. Viartis. ISBN 978-1906421021.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe (2007). Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America. New York: Random House.
Flint, Valerie I.J. (16 May 2021). "Christopher Columbus". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
Lane, Kris (8 October 2015). "Five myths about Christopher Columbus". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 August 2018.